noun · feminine
bēthsaida
Strong’sG966
Bethsaida
stem bēthsaid-5 times in the New Testamentin 3 of 27 books3 of 10 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
Βηθσαιδά (Rec. -σαϊδά), and -δάν (Mt 11:21, Mk 6:45 8:22), ἡ, indecl.
(Syr., house of fish),
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G966 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidbayth-sahee-dah'
fishing-house; Bethsaida, a place in Palestine
Fromof Chaldee origin (compare and );
King JamesBethsaida.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
Bethsaida, a town on NE. shore of the Sea of Galilee:
__2. 2. Βηθζαθά, ἡ, indecl. (perh. Aram. בֵּית זַיְתָה, house of olives)
(From Abbott-Smith. LSJ has no entry)
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | bēthsaida | bēthsaida |
| object accusative | bēthsaida1×Βηθσαϊδά | bēthsaida |
| direct address vocative | bēthsaida2×Βηθσαϊδά | bēthsaida |
| of, belonging to genitive | bēthsaida2×Βηθσαϊδά | bēthsaida |
| to, for dative | bēthsaida | bēthsaida |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
5 occurrences, every one of them listed
bēthsaida“Bethsaida”objectaccusative singular1×
Luke 9:10… hupochōrata kata idian eis polan kalorōntan Bēthsaida.… He withdrew to a town called Bethsaida.
bēthsaida“Bethsaida”direct addressvocative singular2×
Matthew 11:21Ouai si, Chorazin; ouai si, Bēthsaida; hoti ei en Tura kai Sidōna …… to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the miracles that were …
Luke 10:13Ouai si, Chorazin; ouai si, Bēthsaida; hoti ei en Tura kai Sidōna …… to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the miracles that were …
bēthsaida“Bethsaida”of, belonging togenitive singular2×
John 1:44ate de tos Filippos apo Bēthsaida, ek tau polau Andreou kai Petrou.Now Philip was from Bethsaida, the same town as Andrew and …
John 12:21houtois oun proserchala Filippo to apo Bēthsaida tau Galilaiau, kai erōtale auton legarōntois; …… came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida in Galilee, and requested of him …